Here, we have a gay man who defends Rick Santorum, a man that is an open homophobe, theocrat, and bigot who compares gay and lesbian Americans to sex deviants that have intercourse with animals.

Here, we have an African American who defends Rick Santorum, a man that is a race-baiter who suggests that blacks are lazy parasites on White America.

Fanon would have so much fun with Robert Traynham.

Question: are folks like him just professional mercenaries who will take any position because it pays well? Or, and these questions may not be exclusive of one another, is Traynham just self-hating, working for a political agenda that devalues his personhood in a neat act of self-flagellating guilt?

In all, the human capacity for self-delusion boggles the mind. I do not know if Robert Tranyham is loathsome, tragic, or both.

The question you pose is of the "do you beat your wife on Sunday" type, so of course you don't really want an answer.

You think this guy is either self hating for working against his own interests- or you think he is working for his own interests in the form of some kind of payoff or sell out. (I hope I stated your view correctly)

But what gives you any standing to know what his interests are? You are not his father/mother, you have no legal cause to tell him what is good for him.

What other circumstance can you name where one person can go around and tell other people "You do what I say, and you vote like I tell you because I know what is best for you" (I can think of several cases, and I bet you can too, and all of them stink)

Seems like your normally rational posting style slipped up a groove and you jumped right into bossy big pants. If you want to disagree with the brother then do so, but to just Uncle Tom him is to disengage and cheat.

p.s. NOT a Santorum supporter, I think he has an unclear understanding of federalism.

Seems like your normally rational posting style slipped up a groove and you jumped right into bossy big pants. If you want to disagree with the brother then do so, but to just Uncle Tom him is to disengage and cheat.

The question you pose is of the "do you beat your wife on Sunday" type,

No it isn't. Did you watch the video? When confronted on the most BASIC of contradictions, gay person working for one of the most vocally anti-gay GOP candidates in years, he crashed and burned, complete with deer in headlights look.

This is not just a problem with Traynham as a stupid clueless conservative individual, it's a problem with cognitive-dissonance conservatism in general.

This is a person who was actively working (theoretically, if Santorum would ever have any kind of chance to push his agenda) towards not only his own second-class citizenship but mine and every other walking social target on Santorm's little list.

Be careful. Whenever Cnu and his jigaboo chorus starts supporting you, it is quite possible you are on shaky ground. I am transparent. Look back on previous posts on the subject--one of our fun rituals is the discommendation of race traitor negroes.

I operate from a position of group interests. He is free to do whatever he likes, but I call self-hating blacks and others out when they are used to enable an agenda that would hurt the group to which they belong.

There is a long history of this type of calculus among marginalized communities, and quite a bit of empirical work demonstrating how it works.

You can play the radical autonomy game all day long if you like, your choice. Dude and folks like him--black conservatives especially--are useful tools for the Right-wing. I just name them as such.

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